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Futures studies

the idea of a present stretched over the past and next ten thousand years, to encourage responsibility over long time frames.

In futures studies, long now refers to the idea of a present stretched over the past and next ten thousand years, to encourage responsibility over long time frames. This meaning comes from Brand (1999) in The Clock of the Long Now: time and responsibility.[1]

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References

Brand, S. (1999). The Clock of the Long Now: time and responsibility. Tandem Library. ISBN 9780465007806

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